Hi Krutin,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab Report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you have learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Important note!
Sometimes, you may not have been able to respond to all polls.
If the data for one of the polls is missing, the automatic report will display NA, or ““.
Okay, let’s get started!
The first half of Grit Lab delves deep intp the passion facet of Grit.
We like to call it Choose Easy, because we think gritty people pursue what they enjoy.
Putting it graphically, gritty people tend to pursue the intersection of these four circles.
The first time we met, you told us where you were on the grit rubric.
Regarding passion you picked Stage 4: I have an interest I’m actively pursuing, voluntarily devoting more than 3 hours of “free time” each week .
Regarding perseverance you picked .
As you know, grit grows, so don’t worry if you are not yet where you’d like to be in your grit journey.
Hopefully, this class will help you become grittier each day.
In week 2, we looked at your interests.
Interest is an emotion, and it is the opposite of boredom.
Your interests are the activities or subjects that spontaneously grab your attention.
Trying things out and seeing how you feel is the best way to refine your interests.
In week 3, we studied values, your beliefs about what is important.
You said your top three values were benevolence, achievement, and self-direction.
You wrote a “This I Believe” essay, and here’s where you located it on Schwartz’s value taxonomy.
When we talked about strengths in week 4, you said your personality strength was agreeableness.
You said your top three talents were spiritual, analytic, and musical.
We then talked about goal hierarchies.
You said you had a general intuition (but nothing specific yet) about your top-level goal.
We discussed self-concordance, or how much a goal aligns to your deeply held values and beliefs.
A goal you said you will be pursuing for the next six months is to find a job .
Here is how self-concordant that goal was:
Don’t worry if your self-concordance for that particular goal is low.
It might mean that you need to reframe that goal in a way that makes it more relevant to your deep self, or change it!
Remember that self-concordance is goal specific, so other goals might be more self-concordant.
We then transitioned to the second part of Grit Lab:
Work Smart
In week 6, we looked at goal setting and planning.
You WOOPed!
For your Wish, what you wanted to accomplish, you said Finish a pending class assignment .
For your Outcome, what would happen if your wish came true, you said Feel accomplished .
For you Obstacle, what it is within you that stands in your way, you said Busy & procrastinating .
For your Plan, you created this when-then plan to achieve your goal: When I finish classwork, I will work on late assignment .
Whether you changed your WOOP or stuck to that one, here’s where it landed between being a total fail, and going exactly according to plan.
And here’s how much you learned
These goals are hard, and despite our best efforts, our plans can fail.
The important thing is that you learn something along the way!
In week 7, we talked about deliberate practice.
You shared you’ve done daily practice in Debate .
We learned that deliberate practice requires a challenging, hyperspecific goal, maximum concentration, instant feedback, and is often done alone.
In week 8, we discussed feedback.
Even though feedback can be hard to take, it is often the key to improve. So if you want to improve, seek it actively!
You said you felt Motivated when receiving critical feedback, and Motivated when receiving positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 9, you reported feeling nearly an extreme amount of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being success .
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters…
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being, and health.
And failure—not achieving a particular goal—can be interpreted as “I’m learning!” and lead you to look for the lesson in that experience.
We closed the Work Smart section of the class by talking about habits.
Throughout the semester, you practice habit building using your Build-A-Habit Guide book.
You describe the habit you chose as Something else .
Whether you were successful in habit building or not, this is how much you learned.
Finally, what good is grit if we do not dream for others?
So, we transitioned to Paying it Forward.
In week 10, we looked at mentors: role models that take an active role in your growth.
Hopefully, your mentor was authoritative, being both supportive and demanding.
Here’s how you described them:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to Coach .
In one word, you said it made you feel Rewarding .
One way of paying it forward is having a prosocial, beyond-the-self purpose. Here’s how you responded to items assessing that.
… and so quickly we arrived at the end of the semester.
Here’s how your mood varied over these weeks.
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Do you notice any patterns? Is there anything that correlates with your mood?
Here you can scroll through all the quotes you wrote to summarize each class.
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| Sustained passion and perseverance |
| Interest and enjoyment are both positive, but different emotions |
| Personality states within each person vary more than between people |
| Hot streaks are in the middle, need to sample to get to the hot streak of specialization |
| Crossing the rubicon requires action, break up top level goals into smaller goals |
| Deliberate and challenging practice is the most effective form of practice |
| Advice is inherently future oriented, look to ask for advice |
| Stress response is adaption to new challenges. |
| Night man and day man, the temptations of the night man screw the day man |
| ideal role models should be authoritative and supportive |
| Team players accurately perceive the emotions of others |
In the final class, we looked back to everything we’ve learned together and to how our passion and perseverance evolved during this class.
Here are the comments from your Grit Lab Teammates:
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| Adam Tannenbaum |
| I'm glad that Krutin was a member of our group this semester. As a sophomore, I appreciated the different mindset and energy he brought each week offering a valuable perspective. He was a great contributor in our debriefs energizing the conversation and inquiring deeper into peoples interests. I'm glad I was able to make another friends in him and I look forward to the memories we'll make outside of class.
Krutin did his project on learning how to DJ. I was excited for him to pursue this as I always thought DJs were really cool. Watching him progress learning about song matching, rhythm matching, and tune matching was really interesting. We got to learn a lot about music alongside him this semester. He steadily improved and his transitions became much smoother and more exciting. I also learned about the different aspects to the mixing board. There are a lot of buttons with a ton of functions and while some aren't used very often in mainstream DJing the presence of all the options made us all curious to listen. |
| Caroline Keswin |
| I am so happy I was on a team with Krutin this semester. Even though I didn’t know him before this semester, I now consider him a good friend. Not only did he engage thoroughly with all of our assignments and class conversations but he also proved to be friendly, thoughtful, a great listener, and just an overall amazing person to talk to! Even outside of an academic setting, Krutin always, without fail, will say hi to me, whether on Locust, in the computer lab in Huntsman, or anywhere else. I’m so glad I got to know Krutin this semester and I hope we stay friends after Grit!
I was most excited to see Krutin’s discovery project. Our team saw how excited he was when he finally decided to pursue DJing as his project and I’m so happy he went through with it. His presentation was engaging and informative, and I learned a lot about the techniques of DJing as well as the importance of goal setting and receiving feedback in his process. Most of all, I appreciated that he actually played a demo of one of his mixes. It was so fun to watch him share his music and see the positive reactions of everyone in our class. I hope he continues to pursue DJing so our whole team can go watch him perform some day!
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| Eileen Wang |
| Krutin’s amiable demeanor and thoughtful answers brought great depth to our group’s conversations. The level of introspection and candidness he shared pushed us to do the same. As such, he added richness to our group dynamic. I enjoyed getting to know Krutin and am confident that he will have great success in the future.
Krutin’s Discovery Project presentation was an entertaining watch. His passion and interest for the subject matter made me want to also pick up DJing one day. I find it impressive that he was able to connect his past experience with the Bassoon to his current interest in DJing– this connection made me reflect on how childhood interests can be telling in unconventional ways about your adult interests. I absolutely agree with his point on deliberate practice, and hope to hear a full set one day from DJ Krutin!
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We hope you have emerged from Grit Lab a little grittier than you started.
Do you want to see how your grit rubric changed?
Drumroll please…
Don’t worry if the rubric doesn’t yet reflect growth. It is only a coarse measure that cannot replace your own self-reflection.
In any case, grit is not built in a day…
…remember that progress is never smooth…
…so stay passionate and persevering in the lifelong quest of choosing easy, working smart, and paying it forward.
With grit and gratitude,
Angela and the Grit Lab team.